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  • September 2008

    • Rourke Shines Again at Venice Film Festival

      Reuters  |  Sep 7, 08 4:35 PM CDT

      Rourke Shines Again at Venice Film Festival

      (Newser) - Former Hollywood bad boy Mickey Rourke returned to the spotlight yesterday when his latest low-budget film, The Wrestler , won top honors at the Venice film festival. Critics gushed over his performance as an aging wrestler who comes to terms with his failing body and flagging friendships. More »

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      movie  • film  • awards  • Venice  • Venice Film Festival

  • July 2008

    • Ex-Wife's Novel Details Taylor's Marital Breakup

      New York Times  |  Jul 21, 08 6:53 PM CDT

      Ex-Wife's Novel Details Taylor's Marital Breakup

      (Newser) - Book-jacket fodder that could alone put a novel on the bestseller list is curiously absent from Kathryn Walker’s debut, A Stopover in Venice , Celia McGee notes in the New York Times —though it’s a fictional account of her unhappy marriage to James Taylor. The musician comes in for a “not very flattering” portrait, McGee writes, as does first ex-wife Carly Simon. More »

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      fiction  • Venice  • roman á clef

  • June 2008

    • Bizarro Travel-Industry Jobs

      Travel Leisure  |  Jun 25, 08 2:03 PM CDT

      Bizarro Travel-Industry Jobs

      (Newser) - From Parisian sewer guides to a coconut safety engineer in St. Thomas, some travel industry jobs straddle the line between necessary and absurd. Travel and Leisure highlights some of the strangest. Tourism ambassador, Japan. Diplomacy never looked so soft and cuddly after Japan appointed elder statesfeline Hello Kitty for PR duty in Hong Kong and China. More »

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      list  • Japan  • travel  • tourism  • job  • Venice  • Hello Kitty  • Lego  • karaoke

    • When in Venice, Can the Water Bottles

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 4, 08 9:19 AM CDT

      When in Venice, Can the Water Bottles

      (Newser) - Faced with a mountain of discarded plastic bottles, Venice is asking 19 million tourists to quit drinking mineral water and use the city's 122 public fountains. Beginning Thursday, visitors to the Piazzale Roma will be handed reusable plastic bottles and a map showing fountains that city officials claim are "super safe," reports the Guardian . More »

  • May 2008

    • Man Nabbed for Shooting 3,000 Rear Views

      BBC  |  May 13, 08 8:25 AM CDT

      Man Nabbed for Shooting 3,000 Rear Views

      (Newser) - A Venice man could be facing time behind bars after being caught sneakily snapping photos of women's bottoms—3,000 of them, the BBC reports. Cops busted the suspect after noticing him carrying a bulky bag and following women in short skirts, waiting for them to bend over. The rear-guard police action also netted the stalker's camera and DVDs with his collection. More »

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      Italy  • photographs  • Venice  • invasion of privacy

  • April 2008

    • Venice Bar Uses Discount to Lure 'Poor Yanks'

      Reuters  |  Apr 8, 08 10:05 AM CDT

      Venice Bar Uses Discount to Lure 'Poor Yanks'

      (Newser) - Harry's Bar in Venice has offered hospitality to tourists and expatriates since the days of Ernest Hemingway. But in recent months Harry's has noticed a sharp drop in the number of Americans showing up at the home of the Bellini cocktail. So restaurant owner Arrigo Cipriani has a novel solution: a 20% discount to subprime-stricken Americans for everything on the menu. More »

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      Italy  • weak dollar  • Venice  • discounts  • Ernest Hemingway  • Arrigo Cipriani

  • February 2008

    • Venice Squawking Over Pigeons

      Der Spiegel  |  Feb 13, 08 12:58 PM CST

      Venice Squawking Over Pigeons

      (Newser) - Venice's pigeons are nearly as famous as its gondolas, but the days of tourists feeding pigeon in St. Mark's Square could be numbered, reports Der Speigel . Venice has one of the highest pigeon-to-person ratios of any city in the world, and fed-up city politicians want to remove the square's exemption from a 1997 law banning feeding the birds. More »

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      Italy  • Venice  • pigeons

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